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eXceeding, the IT Services solution sourcing specialists, recently asked a Linkedin Group ‘Cloud Computing, SaaS & Virtualization’ which contains over a 100,000 members of industry experts “What is the largest challenge businesses face selecting a Cloud solution?”

The responses confirmed that this is still a very hot topic for many businesses. The conversations highlighted many of the challenges organisations face selecting Cloud, IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. Below is a summary and selection of the types of responses posted.

Businesses are renegotiating outsourcing agreements before expiration more often than ever before. The nature of many agreements entered into previously has tended to be rather rigid. Client and provider demands are constantly evolving as their businesses demands increase and as such so are IT services and technologies.

The expense of maintaining cutting-edge telecommunications services whether that’s fixed lines and minutes, VOIP, EFM, Leased Lines, MPLS, or combined and complex converged WAN makes it vital for your business to keep a constant eye on telecom costs. Every avenue should be explored to ensure that all options are utilised to make savings whilst still securing the best services possible.

“It’s unwise to pay too much but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money – that’s all. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder it is as well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.” - John Ruskin

A Chief Officer (or Chief Information Officer; CIO) is an executive-level position within an organisation. The CIO is responsible for Information Technology (IT) issues within that organisation.

Do all of your contracts deliver what you pay for and perform satisfactorily?

If yes congratulations, however if like the majority of organisations you aren’t 100% sure then for a completely impartial, confidential review from a fully independent expert please contact eXceeding today, via email, or call 03333 555 111

We are doing quite bit of bid writing for clients at the moment and that experience reminded us that the value of a really good bid-writer is not just in how he/she develops and presents the response document. It’s also about:

Managing a change project is relatively easy – but it doesn’t provide the recipe for sustained growth and survival in these complex times!

The world’s private and public sector leaders have reported to IBM that a rapid escalation of “complexity” is the biggest challenge confronting them (Capitalizing on complexity - IBM Global CEO Study 2010).

As one CEO said: "The complexity our organization will have to master over the next five years is off the charts — a 100 on your scale from 1 to 5.” (Edward Lonergan, President and CEO, Diversey, Inc.)

We are used to hearing FAQs, Frequently Asked Questions. Last week I heard about an interesting variation: SAQs, SHOULD ASK QUESTIONS.